Cebu city in philippines

VCCI would like to invite enterprises to participate in ASEAN - ASEAN BIS 2006 Investment and Business Conference on December 7-10, 2006.
Organizer:
ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC)
Co-organizers:
Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI)
ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASEAN-CCI)
East Asia Business Council (EABC)
Sponsor:
ASEAN Secretariat
Host:
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
Department of Tourism (DOT)
City Government of Cebu
City Government of Mandaue
Provincial Government of Cebu
Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Mandaue City Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Administrator:
Philippine Business Leaders' Forum
ASEAN BIS Focus Groups
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group4
Natural and rural based industries
Infrastructure, transport and tourism
Manufacturing
Professional and financial services
Agribusiness Agriculture, forestry, fishery) … [Read more...] about ASEAN – ASEAN BIS 2006 Investment and Business Conference December 7-10, 2006, at Waterfront Hotel, Cebu City, the Philippines

The Vietnamese embassy in the Philippines sent a delegation to deliver aid and cash to the two remaining Vietnamese families in the city of Tacloban, which was ravaged by super typhoon Haiyan. That same day, a representative from Vietnam's foreign ministry said the group had asked the families to come to Ormoc, 50 kilometers southwest, to escape Tacloban's "worrisome security situation." Nguyen Phuoc was stranded in Tacloban with his Filipino wife and a two-year-old child, while Mai Thanh Huong with her husband. Phuoc said in a Lao Dong report that there had been around 100 Vietnamese people in Tacloban, but they all left, as "they could not bear the lack of water, power and food." "The typhoon had destroyed everything in this area... So people had tried to escape the city." Phuoc used to run a small grocery shop, selling mostly on credit. "Now that people have lost their homes, some even their lives, they have no way of paying me back." The embassy has been arranged … [Read more...] about Embassy moving Vietnamese out of typhoon-hit city in Philippines

One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall devastated the central Philippines, killing more than 1,000 people in one city alone and 200 in another province, the Red Cross estimated on Saturday, as reports of high casualties began to emerge.
The death toll is expected to rise sharply from the fast-moving storm, whose circumference eclipsed the whole country and which late on Saturday was heading for Vietnam.
Among the hardest hit was coastal Tacloban in central Leyte province, where preliminary estimates suggest more than 1,000 people were killed, said Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, as water surges rushed through the city.
"An estimated more than 1,000 bodies were seen floating in Tacloban as reported by our Red Cross teams," she told Reuters. "In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing."
She expected a more exact number to emerge after a more precise counting of bodies on the ground in those regions.
Witnesses said bodies … [Read more...] about Typhoon kills at least 1,200 in Philippines: Red Cross

Bombs exploded in two southern Philippine cities on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, days before a summit meeting of leaders from 16 Asian nations gets underway.
Western governments have warned of bomb attacks by Islamic militants during the January 13-15 summit in the central resort city of Cebu, and said the violence-prone Mindanao region in the south of the country was a likely target.
Police examine the site of a bomb blast which took place in General Santos city, southern Philippines … [Read more...] about Bombs explode in Philippines ahead of Asia summit